Michelle Nicolle is celebrated as Australia's finest female jazz singer.
Bell Award (2017), Mo Award 2001, 2003 & 2004, National Jazz Award (1998) winner and A.R.I.A Finalist (Australian βGrammyβsβ equivalent) in 2001, 2004, and 2009.
βAll Riseβ
Jazz at the Lincoln Centre Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis
(Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Benjamin Northey,
Michelle Nicolle, Emma Pearson, MSO Chorus, Consort of Melbourne).
βThe Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra lived up to its reputation as supreme interpreters of this music, its garrulous horns meshing in seamlessly with the strings and percussion of the MSO. The large chorus β massive in sound β was used sparingly but always to dramatic effect, heightening the emotive reach of the music.
Michelle Nicolle, a renowned local jazz vocalist, was a standout, her resounding gospel cry of βI Say All Riseβ piercing the soulβ
β Des Cowley, ABR ARTS
The 9th release from the Michelle Nicolle Quartet.
Recorded in Melbourne @pughousestudios
and mixed and mastered in NYC @marcurselli
Officially released July 7 on Earshift Music
As well as a great composer J.S. Bach was also one of the great improvisers of his time, a perfect fit for the Quartetβs chamber jazz approach. Also paying homage to other jazz composers, Ornette Coleman, Monk, and Horace Silver, these arrangements showcase the mastery of J.S. Bachβs compositions and add new flavour and energy to the improvisational elements found (and sometimes lost) in these great works.
This is undoubtedly modern music, yet steeped in one of the richest of all musical traditions.
βItβs bats and wonderful and so virtuosicβ¦some amazing ensemble work going on. Itβs so startling and wondrous.β Paul Kildea
THE BACH PROJECT
THE BRUNSWICK GREEN
EVERY THURSDAY SINCE 2007
Since 2007 Michelle has been playing in the gorgeous front room of the 'Brunny Green' every Thursday night, singing and reimagining your jazz requests. The Melbourne Jazz scene is alive and as amazing as ever. As a kicker into 2022 Michelle is re-jigging her residency by featuring a different line-up each week.
Some of Australia's finest and most creative musicians will join Michelle and theyβll be bouncing off classic tunes/not-so-classic tunes, some requests, and most importantly off each other!